Want to get Kyle Bareither talking? Here are some suggested topics: deep-soil mixing, environmental remediation, in-situ bioremediation… or maybe even unconfined compression strength. Clearly, this is a man who loves what he does and what he does is specialize in cleaning up former manufactured gas plants, working as an environmental engineer for Natural Resource Technology Inc. in Milwaukee. ASCE has selected Bareither as one of the
She didn’t know it at the time, but Yung Koprowski’s engineering career started when her parents, Arlan and Koo Carroll, moved out to the country. “My father was an electrical engineer,” Koprowski said. “He essentially bought our house, gutted it, and rebuilt it. So we had a lot of home projects we worked on over the years. I was always impressed with how he could
It wasn’t Rajan Jha’s finest moment. “I hadn’t performed that great, I’m just being honest with you,” Jha remembers. Report card day at Delhi Public School in Korba, India. Jha’s literature teacher, Sreekala Madhavan, had left a hand-written note in the margin: “‘You don’t even know how much potential you have,’” Jha remembers. It was as if his academic career was struck by lightning. “Those
Ariful Hasnat, Aff.M.ASCE, used to travel with his family from their Noakhali home in Bangladesh to the capitol city of Dhaka. Hasnat was only 7, but even then he wondered why it would take as many as seven hours to cross three kilometers by ferry. “My father answered, ‘If you can build bridges over these rivers, then you can pass it in 10 minutes,’” Hasnat
Education has been a journey for Ange Therese Akono – both figuratively and literally. Her studies started in her home country of Cameroon, took her to the leading engineering school in France, and then to a doctorate program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of ASCE’s 2016 class of New Faces of Civil Engineering Professionals, Akono now is a tenure-track assistant professor at the
The 2016 class of ASCE New Faces of Civil Engineering – Professional is ripe with diversity and difference. They hail from completely different regions of the Americas, different parts of the world. They speak different languages, practice different specialties. Some work in the field; some educate. Each path to engineering excellence is unique. But the common thread running through each story is that of service.
Civil engineers are in demand. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of civil engineers is projected to grow 20 percent from 2012 to 2022, faster than the average for all occupations. As infrastructure continues to age, an increased number of civil engineers will be needed to manage projects rebuilding bridges, repairing roads, and upgrading levees and dams. But what kinds of specific
Elio “D’App” D’Appolonia, Ph.D., P.E., Hon.M.ASCE, NAE, a giant of geotechnical and foundation engineering, has died. He was 97 years old. A longtime Pittsburgh resident, D’Appolonia started the renowned consulting engineers firm bearing his name in 1956. Employing many of his family members and former students from his time as a faculty member at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), the firm grew into a group
Gary Keefer, Ph.D, P.E., M.ASCE, a respected civil engineering educator, has died. He was 63. He served as chancellor of the Pennsylvania State University Beaver Campus for 16 years, retiring in 2014. “He was truly a role model for all of us and led our campus with high morals, character and integrity,” Interim Chancellor Donna Kuga said on Penn State Beaver’s website. “Gary will be
Apple, Google, Tesla, and Uber are racing to bring self-driving vehicles to market. According to the Gartner Group, there will be 250 million connected vehicles on the road by 2020. In this ASCE Interchange, the executive director of Contra Costa, California’s transportation authority, Randy Iwasaki, P.E., explains how connected and autonomous vehicles can transform our nation’s transportation system to make it safer, smarter, and more
